Originally Posted by azarhal
The screenshots make this look like a board game, a card game and a RTS mixed together.

It was that from the beginning on. It was all there in the interviews and the early reviews.

People who are surprised now have not read everything about it.

The game actually HAS come from an board game that - according to a few sources - the folks there had developed themselves … And, if I recall this correctly, they are sometimes even playing this board game …

-- “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)